Personal Statement

Personal Statement:

I am originally from Chile, and fully bilingual in Spanish and English. I love what I do. I trained in the UK and US with the vision to offer therapeutic services to children and adults through the arts in a variety of settings.
Whilst I am humanistically trained and integrate echoing clinical practices, I am interested in the neuroscience of emotions and I focus my work on developing emotional literacy and social-emotional awareness in children and adults through creative expression.
Furthermore, being an Expressive Arts Therapist means I work using a variety of creative modalities to explore, make meaning and integrate what is present. Sometimes words are not enough. Working through the arts is always a choice and I am happy to work solely through the spoken word. Having a wide palette of creative modalities such as drawing, painting, sculpting, moving/dance, acting, music, puppets, and sand tray, for example, assures there is always a choice in our process. I work with children, adolescents, and adults and offer individual, family, and group therapy.

Other

Theoretical Orientation

Art/Movement/Psychodrama

Eclectic (Many Therapies)

Humanistic/Existential

Narrative

Process

Certifications

Marriage and Family Therapist
Expressive Arts Therapy
Certificates:
-Therapeutic Applications of the Arts in Therapy and Education
Emotional Literacy for School Children, Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education (IATE), London UK

Resources

Featured Therapist

Veronica Velasco, M.A.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Redding, CA 96001

Veronica someone who has an intrinsic desire towards helping others reach their intra-personal and inter-personal aspirations. She is a California Licensed Marriage And Family Therapist with various experience in child, adolescent, adult, couples, and family therapy, as well as those who suffer from mental disorders paired with substance abuse.